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Where to begin, so much catching up. Thanks to everyone for the lively discussions, a pleasure to read and musical rabbit holes to follow. Frank Zappa is about as close as I get to opera. Favorite David Crosby song is Triad. Shipping notice showed nothing until this morning and now says, it's less than 100 miles away, could be here tomorrow or maybe next week. Yes, Dave's Picks series getting long in the tooth, WMG Rhino will never go any higher than 25K editions and they well could fall back to 20K now the resellers are buying less volume but if they do, how about five releases per year instead of four?When I look at all the DPs, the DaPs, the RTs, the box sets, its freakin' incredible how much grate music is on the shelves, not to mention everything else, have enough to last forever.... so when is the new 68/69 box going to be released? And now about the last night of FW69 on vinyl, whats the hold up?? Could not wait for Gainesville, downloaded.

Didn’t the recent 90 (s), the 69s, and possibly the 74 Dave’s sell out within a week or less?

eBay/taxes and all that is probably one factor, but I also think there’s a significant number of folks who might feel they have enough of some years, but are hankering for other underrepresented ones?

I guess time will tell. It’ll be interesting to see how 46 does as there are also a good number of shows from 72 out already…

EDIT: do not dig opera, or chorus, or most things with over the top choral singing, but so what, that’s just me.
One man gathers what another man spills…

Dennis - For the two opera productions I went to/got dragged to, I didn’t realize this until I got there, but there is a long teleprompter (for lack of a better word) that ran above the stage, that translated the lyrics from Italian (I think) into English, so that helped when I’m trying to figure out Who What Where. Definitely not my kind of music, and ten minutes after the show I couldn’t tell you what the productions were called, but I can now say I’ve been, and I always use the credits I bank for concerts or movies my wife has no desire to see. If she starts with the “Another James Bond movie…!!”, I just pull out the Platinum opera card, and arrange for movie seats.

The newest Dylan bootleg box is a keeper. The stuff he doesn’t release are of such incredible quality, you wonder how most of his albums weren’t the Blonde On Blonde double or triple format.

RonMarley1shocked it is here in NYC so quickly. I am usually on the outside looking in.

That Mike - NO BROADWAY SHOWS!!?!!?! My god man have you no taste!!!

Funny wife line.....

Driving somewhere one day with "The Wife" and as usual singing non stop. Running thru every broadway song I know (which is quite a few :-) ). Once done I tell my wife about a 6 grade "music" teacher we had. When I was a kid in school once a week a "music" teacher or an "art" teacher would come by for an hour. This music teacher printed off all the words to several musicals, he'd play piano and the class would sing. I ended with I guess he was gay. To which she replies, "says the man who's been singing musicals for an hour".

One more quick one for a smile. A few years back we went to a family reunion for my wife's family. One relative pulls out a guitar and starts thru a lot of simple songs everyone knows. He then ends up doing Kansas City from Oklahoma. Gets thru the first line or two and nobody continues to sings. Then from the back of the pack I pull all the words out of my ass. Rest of the time there everyone wants to know how I knew all those words! (like Monk, It's a gift,,,,, and a curse.

Opera, I don't mind opera per se, but foreign languages I don't understand. But give me Sweeney Todd (and no, not that lousy version with Johnny Depp. Or how about, 'I am the captain of the pinafore and I'm never, ever sick at sea" (No Never?) ( and let's not forget Jesus Christ Superstar)

Mr Ones and his two side coin.

Must not have watched Route 66. Then you'd know a coin has 3 sides.

Tod Stiles : Whenever you reach an impasse look at the the third side of the coin.

Buz Murdock : The third side?

Tod Stiles : Yea.

Buz Murdock : I thought there was only two sides to a coin.

Tod Stiles : The third side is the edge, the place the two sides come together. The meeting place of heads and tails. Dad used to say that was the best side, because it welds opposites together. And it's a circle, a continuous circle, closed and perfect, as endless as understanding itself.

Ebay taxes,,, ebay can only report "sales" numbers, not taxable profit. Because I sell something for 10 bucks doesn't mean I made 10 bucks, If I can show (if need be) a ten dollar item cost me 9.99, taxable income is only a penny. Also sometimes "cost" can make a profit a loss.

Vguy - no problem, Mi cuts, su cuts

Bob Dylan Bootleg 17 lp box came last night, very nice box, well made. The packaging was above and beyond great.

...... now where did I put that turntable.....

Good for you JJC! I still don't have a shipping notification.

and that's it, the end of an era. ebay has capped their sales at 600.00 per year which means no more resales of Dave's Picks. If there are, they will be more expensive then they are now, like triple mark up. If there is no profit to be made, there will be less sales and therefore less resales. This will ultimately be the death toll for Dave's Picks and for most limited editions and possibly for all these remixed, super fidelity reissues that everyone and their families are re releasing for more cash for the same music. I have enough music now to last me till long after I'm dead.
Are there any more 77 shows to release? I do believe if there are, they can't be that many, especially top notch shows. I love this series of releases more than Dick's but nothing last forever and maybe it's time to turn the page.
TPTB got me this year for the subscription for Dave's 46, love 72, but they are going to have to come up with something extra special for me to reup my subscription next year.
I predict that the numbers will be reduced to less than 20,000 for the next series of releases, if that many. Dreading summed it up very well below and I concur with his assessment. Fare Thee Well thanks for the memories and for a real good time.

out for delivery!!

DREADING Thanks for the response.
Perhaps Rhino could create an artificial increased profit by claiming every DaP a sell out after a couple of hours and then selling the withheld items themselves via eBay at a ridiculous price :)) They would also have a more informed idea of the number of likely resellers as they would have data on the number of multiple item subscriptions. Obviously they’d need to set up multiple accounts to disguise their identity in the resale trade.

Already bought mine, even though it's not available yet